The Ducks took care the first of their 2015 draft picks on Wednesday, signing second-rounder Julius Nattinen to a three-year entry level contract.

Nattinen, 18, was taken by the Ducks with the 59th overall pick in last month's draft after the team moved down in the second round when they swapped picks with the New York Rangers in order to get winger Carl Hagelin for Emerson Etem.

Nattinen played the majority of the 2014-15 season with JYP-Akatemia of Finland's second-division pro league, ...

Adding some organizational depth on defense, the Ducks signed veteran Shane O'Brien to a one-year contract Thursday.

O'Brien, 31, originally came up with the Ducks in 2006-07 and played in 62 games before being traded to Tampa Bay. He has 537 NHL games on his resume, with time also spent in Vancouver, Nashville, Colorado, Calgary and Florida.

Last season, O'Brien largely played with the San Antonio Rampage -- Florida's AHL affiliate -- and had 11 goals, 19 assists and 127 penalty minutes.

The Ducks signed center Chris Wagner to a one-year contract, the team confirmed Thursday.

The deal, according to sources, is worth $600,000 and two-way in nature. Wagner will need to require waivers if he is sent down to the American Hockey League this season due to already plyaing in the league in three seasons after signing his original entry-level contract.

Wagner, 24, made his NHL debut on Oct. 17 against Minnesota and appeared in nine games with the Ducks. He went scoreless ...

The Ducks never hid the fact that they wanted to get Ryan Kesler signed to a contract extension and they made it happen Wednesday -- in a big and very lucrative way for the hard-boiled center.

The team that came up one win short of playing for the Stanley Cup locked up a critical piece for the foreseeable future in its push to take the final step, signing Kesler to a six-year deal worth $41.25 million.

The Ducks signed veteran left wing Brian McGrattan to a one-year deal Friday worth $600,000 if he plays in the NHL and $100,000 in the American Hockey League.

McGrattan has played in 317 NHL games over nine seasons with Ottawa, Phoenix, Nashville and Calgary. He has racked up 609 penalty minutes with those four teams, while managing to contribute 10 goals and 17 assists.

It will be McGrattan's second time with the organization. The 6-foot-4, 235-pound enforcer was acquired by the Ducks ...

Dennis Kravchenko scored three times Monday to power Team Black to a 5-2 victory over Team White in the second and final scrimmage of the Ducks prospect development camp at Anaheim Ice.

A native of San Clemente, Kravchenko moved to Iowa and played three seasons in the United States Hockey League with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders and Sioux Falls Stampede. Kravchenko was a freshman at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where had 10 goals and led the Minutemen with 33 points in ...